Aunt Zhu didn't move much when she was said, and glanced at me: "Jiaolong, this is the ...... You say, is it possible that the mule went up to the East Mountain, and then came down from the North Mountain by itself? ”

I know that Aunt Zhu wants to help me round, but I really don't have the strength to do it now. Lowered her eyes, "Aunt Zhu." It's my fault, it's me who didn't see ......."

"Look! He confessed! Aunt Zhu, don't stop me, I have to give him some color to see this kind of person!! ”

"You're giving me a stop!!"

Aunt Zhu stretched out her hand and pushed him: "What should you do if you hurt Jiaolong and the third sister, you help the old ugly raise the third sister!" What's going on in this house!! ”

Zhou Lao Er was indignant: "Auntie, then what do you say, my daughter-in-law suffered this loss because he killed her!" Face is face, but if you don't give me an explanation for this, he wants to stay in our village!! ”

Aunt Zhu sighed when she looked at me half-dead, and looked at Zhou Lao Er again with some helplessness: "Second child, look at it like this, this is a human being, and there is a time to lose sight." Jiaolong also blames me for this, I asked her to show your daughter-in-law, maybe she was not fully prepared, but Yuqin was indeed injured and broke her leg, so let's do it, I will take some money with Jiaolong's family, but buy some nutritional products for Yuqin, go and see her, this matter, even if it is pulled, a village lives. Let's think about the old ugly. ”

Zhou Lao Er shook his head: "Auntie, this matter has nothing to do with you, I can't ask for your money and your things, but since you have talked about this, it's okay, let this little white face give my daughter-in-law money for medical treatment, people, I was hurt by listening to his nonsense, then I must ask him to give me an explanation!" ”

"Jiaolong, look at this ......"

I let out a breath and looked at Aunt Zhu and nodded: "Thank you, Auntie." I'm willing to take responsibility for this matter, just let this second brother say the number, I'll lose money. ”

Hearing me say this, Aunt Zhu's heart was bottomed up, and she looked at Zhou Laoer: "That's okay, second child, how much money do you think is appropriate, so let's do it, I'll set it for you, five hundred, it doesn't cost much to pick up the bones in Lao Sun, and the rest of the money should be used to buy nutritional products for Yuqin!" ”

"What's that?!" Zhou Laoer's eyes widened: "Five hundred? Auntie, you're kidding, at least three ...... Five thousand!! ”

I knew he was talking about three thousand. Just looking up and down the clothes I'm wearing, or I can have some money in my hand, so in the middle of nowhere, it's a lion's mouth.

"What? Five thousand! Second, you're going too far! A thousand, a thousand to death! ”

Aunt Zhu was still helping me bargain, and Zhou Lao Er looked at me without blinking, "It's just five thousand, otherwise, I can't get over this matter, Auntie, I'll give you face, this matter can be private, otherwise, if it makes trouble with my brother-in-law, it won't be so simple." ”

"But five thousand is too much, five thousand has to ......"

"It's five thousand." I opened my mouth lightly and glanced at the third sister: "Third sister, go and get five thousand yuan for the second brother." ”

The third sister didn't say much, nodded and ran into the house, Aunt Zhu kept giving me a look, meaning that I don't need to be so much, I'm not crazy to take out five thousand at once!

Zhou Lao Er smiled, hugged his shoulder and looked at me with interest: "Yes, this is an attitude of admitting mistakes, it seems that your kid still weighs some money in his hand, in the city, there is no less deception, hey, who did you offend our cat?" ”

"Dick!"

Aunt Zhu shouted at him: "Why is it so ugly to talk about giving you money, this thing is said and that, so much money, enough money for you to sell how many mountain goods, you kid is equivalent to making a windfall for you, let me tell you, from now on, you are not allowed to find trouble with Jiaolong!" ”

Zhou Lao Er smiled and took the money from the third sister's hand, spit on his finger, and smiled while counting, until he finished counting, and put the money in his pocket: "Okay, even if this matter is in the past, this kid knows each other, but in the future, let him be careful, and if he is so deceitful in the village, I still have to come!" Auntie, I'm bothering you about this, otherwise, I wouldn't have called this kid like that! Let's drink! ”

"Get out!!"

Aunt Zhu shouted, until Zhou Lao Er picked up his pickaxe and shook it and hummed a little song and left, then turned around and looked at me with a depressed face: "Jiaolong, why can't you give it so happily!" ”

I lowered my eyes and sighed: "Auntie, thank you for this." ”

"Thank you, I believe you are not a liar, Wei Qiang can still watch you wrong when you are on the TV you are watching outside!"

"Auntie, what if that person named Wei Qiang is really wrong......

"What, you can't, you ......"

I looked at her with a wry smile: "Auntie, in the future, don't look for me, I really don't have any big skills, the second brother is right, I just want to be a cat here, I'm a waste......"

"Hey, Jiaolong......"

Taking the third sister's hand and walking a few steps to the house, I looked back at Aunt Zhu: "Auntie, I don't think I will show anyone in this village in the future, but don't worry, I have absolutely nothing to say nonsense about the upper beam of your son's house, I won't send you Auntie, thank you really for taking care of you......"

Aunt Zhu stood alone in the courtyard for a while, wanting to come in and say something to me, her feet moved twice, and finally she shook her head and left helplessly.

The third sister found some topical medicines brought from the city to help me carefully rub them on my face to reduce swelling, and asked in a low voice, "Does it hurt?" ”

I stared blankly at the remnant sun in the courtyard outside the window, shaking my head and not making a sound.

The third sister's eyes slowly reddened, and she bit her lip to help me wipe some of the blood left under her nose, "If Mr. Zhuo is here, he will definitely not be able to see you being bullied......"

I came back to my senses slightly and looked at the third sister: "Didn't you say, don't mention him?" “

The third sister raised her arm and wiped her tears, "I'm sorry, Jiaolong, I forced you to keep making you have to be a gentleman, forcing you to resume your Taoism and avenge me...... I'm sorry, Jiaolong, I really don't think you should be here now, I was wrong...... Maybe Uncle Ugly is also wrong......"

I pulled some tissue paper and rubbed it into my nose, and looked at her to refresh myself a little: "Where am I going if I don't come here, I can't watch you stay here for three years, in fact, it's very good here, I have to show others what kind of livestock, this trouble is self-inflicted, and it has nothing to do with you, ah." “

The third sister sniffed and shook her head: "It's my fault, I refuted that Wei Qiang at the beginning and said that you are not a gentleman, you have been on fire for many days for Aunt Zhu's son's Shangliang, I shouldn't put pressure on you anymore, Jiaolong, I will never force you to be a gentleman in the future, the two of us will stay like this for three years, and I will go back to take revenge myself after three years, really, don't worry about me anymore, I can't see others bullying you......"

"It's not bullying, if my family breaks their legs because of a gentleman, I'll be angry, think about it, it's nothing......"

The third sister leaned her face against my chest, still sobbing quietly, "I hate Yu Xiangling, I curse her every day for not dying well, why do we have to suffer like this, Jiaolong...... I hate her...... "Brother of the Servant Mu."

I gently patted the third sister's arm as a silent comfort, but I sadly found that I didn't even have the strength to curse a person

……

Zhou Laoer's matter soon spread in the village, this time, even if Aunt Zhu how to clear my name, it will not help, even if most of the people in the village have no culture, but they understand the truth that facts speak louder than words, the so-called good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, I once overheard two villagers about whether I was a liar or not, "That person from the city, don't say anything else, just ask him to find livestock and can't find this, then he is definitely not a gentleman!" ”

"But didn't Aunt Zhu say that this gentleman gave his son a good house on the beams, and his son's life is also good!"

"Tsk! That's confused! Don't you just go back and finish the total of Aunt Zhu's house and then go to the second daughter-in-law, what's the matter, this time I went to the ditch! I almost lost my life in that ditch! Have you heard, Yuqin almost died halfway, and if she didn't die, she would pick up a life! ”

"How serious? Yuqin two days ago, I watched her go up the mountain, I heard that her leg was broken and raised at home for some days, but I didn't hear that she was still half paralyzed! ”

"People are almost half paralyzed, and it may be easy to delay childbirth! You know what a! It's all that gentleman's nonsense! ”

"Oh, it's so serious, this Wei Qiang also said that he had been on TV outside."

"It's just that I listened to that kid's nonsense, and now he can't eat it anymore, saying that maybe he recognized the wrong person, he said that the gentleman he knew was not as bearish as this, and our village is 100% a bastard, don't believe it, change it to make your daughter-in-law half of her body in the ditch!!"

The third sister almost didn't blow up after hearing this, and when she came back, she scolded me for talking nonsense, saying that they were talking nonsense there, when did Zhou Laoer's daughter-in-law go to be half-paralyzed, it was that the bones were misplaced, it was not that serious at all, and it also delayed childbirth, the calf and the uterus were 108,000 miles apart, which door was delayed to give birth?

I listened to these quite calmly, and repeated the work of pressing the well into the bucket and then pouring it into the bucket, she had never lived in the village, and she didn't know the speed of information transmission in the village.

I still don't think this thing is deformed, some things come back and you still feel like you're listening to a new thing, this, is the power of people's saliva polishing, maybe in a few circles, it will become me kicked Zhou's second daughter-in-law into the ditch, by the way, she can't have children, this is not a shadowless thing, how to spread you really can't control it.

"Jiaolong, don't fight, I don't drink it, why do you get this water every day."

I looked at her with a smile: "Just find yourself some work to do, and you will be idle if you are idle." ”

The third sister nodded and stopped talking, carrying a basket to clean up the wild fungus we picked down from Uncle Zhu's and some herbs and mountain goods that I learned from Aunt Zhu, I brought money to repair Uncle Zhu's house, plus I lost 5,000 yuan, a bit of a posture of sitting on the empty mountain, so the third sister also learned from Aunt Zhu to carry a basket when she went up the mountain, and picked something when she saw it, and saved a basket and went to the village eldest son's receiving station to exchange some money, and the basic life of the two of us was enough.

And there is something in my heart that I haven't kept telling the third sister, for a long time, coupled with the criticism of the people in the village against me, although everyone has not obviously rejected me, but except for Aunt Zhu, no one cares much about me, the third sister has always felt guilty, I feel that it is her repeated encouragement to continue to be a gentleman to cause today's situation, I don't care, now it is indeed not suitable for people to see things, and it can be regarded as a happy purity.

The days are monotonous and simple, and the third sister never mentions the purpose of my coming here, she seems to be deliberately forgetting, and it seems that she is avoiding not wanting to reveal my scars, it seems that she is more concerned about the recycling price of mountain goods in the recycling station is a few yuan and a few cents, and will recite a few words to Aunt Zhu from time to time The son of the village chief is black.

Of course, Rong Danfeng in the third sister's bones is a very smart girl, she saw my depression, so she didn't dare to touch it again, just afraid that once I broke out again, the consequences can be imagined, to put it simply, she is using another way to relieve my pressure, more simply, she is afraid that I will not be able to open it, she is afraid that I will die secretly.

And what I didn't tell her is that I discovered a secret, a secret about water, on the day when Zhou Lao Er came to make trouble because of his daughter-in-law Yuqin, I can be sure that my understanding is given to me by water, that is to say, water makes my body spiritual, and after drinking, it will open a certain door in the brain, so that you can understand it, but the third sister of water will be astringent when she drinks it, and if I drink it again, it will be astringent.

I repeated several experiments, that is, I fetched water in the morning, and came down from Uncle Ugly's mountain in the afternoon, and then I was drinking, sweet, and my mind was very clear, but the water three sisters couldn't touch, if she drank it, the whole tank of water would become astringent, and I drank it myself, not more than three sips, that is, scooped three times, otherwise, it would still be astringent, and after it was astringent, people couldn't drink it, even if my brain was empty again, it was useless to drink astringent water.

The strange thing is not only this, after this water is finished, I drink it at the beginning, it is ordinary well water, I and the third sister must go out, and then come back, as long as I drink, well, it is sweet, or a tank of water at night, drink it in the morning, it will also be sweet, I once tried not to go out for a day, guarding the water tank, but the water did not become sweet by itself, but I went back to sleep that night, and woke up in the morning to become sweet, so I suspect, there is something similar to' The snail girl's people or some animal are secretly helping me, that is, giving me some more physical spirituality, otherwise, the water itself will not change its taste......

After thinking about it for many days, I repeatedly experimented and figured it out, and later found that the spirituality of drinking water was very short at first, and I could only last for one or two days, but then slowly, it was three days and four days, and I was actually able to find livestock for the people in the village, but as soon as Zhou Laoer's incident came out, no one dared to come to me again, and I didn't want to push myself out again, just looking for an animal and a bird?

The brain is better, but the hand is still crippled, and I can't see anything else, I'm afraid that the third sister will know, and hope will come again, and after that, I will be disappointed in me again.

I'm still pressing the well water every day, and then doing something like wasting water in the eyes of the third sister, in fact, I'm looking for it, I want to find this snail girl who gives me the 'spirit' to help me selflessly, is it a human, or a god, or a ghost, I always want to know who he is!

The winter here is cold and leaves late, and the third sister is still shivering when she wraps herself in a quilt when she goes to the kang, "Jiaolong, tomorrow I will also go to the commissary to buy some plastic sheeting and come back to seal the window, otherwise it will be too cold, let's not catch a cold." ”

I looked at her apologetically: "Wait a minute, I'll buy it after a while, you can sleep first." ”

The third sister didn't understand my intentions, but she still lay down: "Jiaolong, isn't that door in a hurry to repair, it blows loudly at night." ”

"Well, get it with the window then."

I replied softly, but instead boiled a pot of boiling water for myself and made a cup of strong tea, the third sister fell asleep and gradually lost her voice, and I sat by the window with the cup of tea and turned off the light, and used my mouth to make the ice flowers on the window, through the corner of the glass, my eyes stared directly at the yard, at this moment, the snow in the yard helped me a lot, the bright white snow against the moonlight seems to be extraordinarily transparent, I don't need to turn on the light, I can see the dynamics outside the window clearly.

It's really cold, when I was a child in the countryside, I lived in a bungalow and covered the window with plastic sheeting, otherwise I couldn't stand the wind, the third sister didn't know before, maybe it was frozen these days, and then I heard Aunt Zhu say, I also wanted to seal the window, but I didn't agree, I was afraid that the plastic sheet would block my vision, because I had been waiting for the unknown 'snail girl' to appear.

It's strange to say, I've been blocking this thing in the water for more than a month, but every time at about two or three o'clock in the middle of the night, I don't know if I feel like I'm sleeping, so tonight I deliberately turned off the lights and drank strong tea, the purpose is to make myself unable to sleep, if I get someone's favor, how can I be used for no reason, at least I have to know why people help me, and say thank you in person.

In the second half of the night, I heard the voice of the third sister, this is the time when she slept the most soundly, and my eyelids began to fight a little, but I stiffened, my eyes did not dare to move away from the yard at all, and I didn't know why I was sure that person or thing would come in from outside the door, I was sleepy, I drank the strong tea, and pinched my thighs hard, Ma Jiaolong, I must know who he is tonight, I must know......

I squinted my eyes and was about to yawn again, when something seemed to 'swish' out of the glass window!

My mouth was still wide open, but my eyes couldn't search for it, so fast, I was surprised, I only heard the door outside the kitchen as if it was blown by the wind and slammed gently, sleepiness was gone, I didn't even have time to put on my shoes, I jumped to the ground with a bang, opened the door, only to see the door of the outhouse wide open, the north wind howling, faintly as if something had jumped out!

Looking down at my feet that were only wearing socks, I gritted my teeth and chased after my feet, "Who's helping me!" ”

The cold wind soon swallowed my voice, I ran to the gate of the yard against the wind, looked at the dark night in front of and behind, and couldn't stop shouting: "Who is helping me!" ”

It was cold and the dog didn't bark, I was full of the sound of the wind, hugged my arm, turned around and just wanted to go back to the yard, only to hear a woman's coquettish laughter behind me: "Giggles...... Good girl, I'm helping you......"

I instinctively turned my head and looked at a face that was as black as charcoal, and I was shocked: "Ah!! "Machine